The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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